In a post written by Howell on Medium, he explained how Apple agreed not to take Phoneys off the market if he changed the color and font so his stickers look nothing like the messages on an iPhone. He wrote,

They were not going to pull the app, Bill made sure to emphasize. They'd give me a week, until next Thursday, to fundamentally change it so that the bubbles looked nothing like iMessage bubbles, instead looking something closer to 'comic book cartoon bubbles.'

Howell admitted he isn't sure what he's going to do, but we can only hope he leaves the app the way it is so we can squeeze in a few more days of tricking our friends before it's gone forever.